Prostate
Disease
(Data
are for U.S. for year indicated)
Health
Care Use
Hospital
inpatient care
Number
of prostatectomy procedures: 155,000
Source:
2005 National Hospital Discharge Survey, Table
8
Hospice
care
Number
of current patients with prostate cancer as primary diagnosis: 8,100
(2000)
Percent
of current patients with prostate cancer as primary diagnosis: 7.7 (2000)
Source:
National Home and Hospice Care Survey, Table 12
Mortality
Number
of deaths from prostate cancer: 28,905
Deaths
per 100,000 males from prostate cancer: 19.8
Source:
Deaths:
Final data for 2005, Tables 12, 14
More
data
Cancer
incidence rates by sex, race, and Hispanic origin, 1990-2004
Health, United States, 2007, Table 53
Age
adjusted death rates by sex, race, and Hispanic origin: 1950-2004
Health, United States, 2007, Table 29
Health
Data Interactive
Related
links
National
Home and Hospice Care Survey
National
Hospital Discharge Survey
Mortality
data
National
Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
National
Cancer Institute
This page last reviewed
December 17, 2008
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